Wis. Supreme Court justice questioned on key votes [View all]
Chicago Tribune
A Wisconsin Supreme Court justice twice cast the deciding vote in favor of parties represented by a law firm that gave him tens of thousands of dollars of free legal services, a newspaper is reporting.
One of those cases allowed Gov. Scott Walker to implement a law that effectively eliminated collective bargaining for most public workers, the Milwauke Journal Sentinel reports.
Justice Michael Gableman was in the 4-3 majority that allowed Walker to prevail. The law firm of Michael Best and Friedrich worked for Walker's administration in the collective bargaining case -- and had defended Gableman for free in an ethics case, according to the newspaper.
Gableman also had the deciding vote in an opinion last March that sided with a client of the firm against Milwaukee over tax assessments.
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